recruit

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But the hyper-athletic swingman has the kind of hops and length that make him extremely interesting as a long-term recruit, which is probably why he's getting looks from teams who he couldn't get a minute on right now.

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  1. transitive verb To engage (persons) for military service.
  2. transitive verb To strengthen or raise (an armed force) by enlistment.
  3. transitive verb To supply with new members or employees.
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  • He considered himself a youth and took a pride in being occasionally mistaken for a recruit, and here some newspaper had called him “granddaddy,” and people had laughed! —  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Vol. 2 of 14
  • But he's also shown the speed and the hands that made him a top recruit, and he has the rest of the spring and summer to work on everything else.
  • Johnson†™ s transformation from an unrecruited high school football standout to a Division I recruit was anything but sudden. —  Blog updates
  • "Eventually, we hope to grow the PAC to train, recruit, and equip pro-family candidates," Perkins said. —  WORLDMag.com
  • The next aspect deals with sacrifice; the recruit should be willing to give up his life in order to achieve his goal. —  rediff.com
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  1. French recruter, from obsolete recrute, recruit, variant of recrue, from feminine past participle of recroître, to grow again, from Old French recroistre : re-, re- + croistre, to grow (from Latin crēscere; see ker-2 in Indo-European roots).

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  1. Formerly also recrute; =D. recruteren =G. recrutieren =Danish rekrutere =Swedish rekrytera, from Old French recruter, levy, properly recluter, mend, =Portuguese recrutar, reclutar, levy, =Spanish reclutar, complete, supply, also recruit, =Italian reclutare, complete, levy, from Middle Latin reclutare (after Roman), recruit, orig. mend, patch, from Latin re. + Teutonic (Anglo-Saxon) clūt (later Old French clut), clout, literally ‘rag,’ ‘piece’: see clout. The orig. sense was forgotten, and confusion ensued with Old French recreue, recrue, a supply, spare stores, etc., recrue, a levy of troops, properly an addition, supply, feminine of recreu, French recru, past participle of recroître, recroistre, grow again, from Latin re-, again, + crescere, grow, increase: see crease, increase, etc. Cf. accrew, recrew, crew.
  2. =D. recruut =G. recrut =Danish rekrut =Swedish rekryt, from Old French recreute =Spanish recluta =Portuguese recruta =Italian recluta, recruit; from the verb, confused in Old French with recreue, a supply, recrue, a levy of troops.
 

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